NBAA Report Calls for Renewed Emphasis on Pre-Takeoff Flight-Control Checks (NBAA - National Business Aviation Association)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
20, 2016 - The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) today issued a report, regarding a fatal 2014 Gulfstream G-IV accident at Hanscom Field Airport in Bedford, MA, which calls for a renewed emphasis on the importance of compliance with the pre-takeoff flight-control checks required by aircraft manufacturers....

French tire giant Michelin expands aircraft tire business in China

Edit China Daily 21 Sep 2016
Michelin said the launch of MSAT aimed at improving service levels and product availability for its aviation customers in China, covering Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern, among others ... aviation Michelin Aircraft Tire said....

Russian or Syrian Government Bombed Aleppo Aid Convoy, U.S. Says

Edit Bloomberg 21 Sep 2016
“All of our information indicates clearly that this was an airstrike,” Rhodes said in a briefing for reporters ... There were “no air strikes on a humanitarian convoy of the UN on the southwestern outskirts of Aleppo by Russian or Syrian aviation,” Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Defense Ministry in Moscow, said Tuesday, according to the Interfax news service....

Waikato District win top patrol dog title (New Zealand Police)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
One of the Police Dog Training Centre's recent graduate teams has triumphed at this year's national police patrol dog championships ... The top three all scored more than 1,000 points out of a possible 1350. A score of over 1000 is an outstanding achievement. New Zealand Police also won the explosive detector dog title and Aviation Security Shield thanks to the teamwork of Senior Constable Andrew Phillips and Doug, from Christchurch....

Aviation officials urged to track low-flying O’Hare planes

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 21 Sep 2016
Spurred by increasing complaints about “low-flying” jets, members of a noise committee Tuesday pressed the city to take a hard look at whether planes are flying into O’Hare Airport at lower than normal altitudes ... Chicago Department of Aviation officials said they could work up an analysis but did not want to make judgment calls about a plane’s altitude ... Chicago Department of Aviation....

The Latest: US holds Russia responsible for aid convoy hit

Edit Boston Herald 21 Sep 2016
In a statement Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry says the U.N., under the era of outgoing Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon, "has deviated from its role in finding just solutions for international problems." ... Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov says that "no kind of air attack on a humanitarian convoy of the United Nations in the southwest outskirts of Aleppo was conducted by Russian or Syrian aviation."....

Vietnam, Laos foster cooperation in information security (Ministry of Infomation and Communications of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
Ministry of Infomation and Communications of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) ... Following their talks, the two ministers inked a minutes of cooperation between the two ministries, and attended the signing ceremony of a cooperation document between the National Electronic Authentication Centre under Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications, and the Internet Centre under the Laos' Ministry of Post and Telecommunications....

Urumqi will add flights to Europe

Edit China Daily 21 Sep 2016
Demand is rising from China's central and western regions for better service to Western and Central Europe for tourism and business travel, said Tang Zhanyou, deputy secretary-general of Urumqi's government. "The routes to Western Europe are expected to save a significant amount of travel time for passenge ... Urumqi International serves as an important civil aviation and air traffic hub in western China....

EPZA has offered foreign businesspeople of enterprises which invested in zones with speedy immigration inspection services. (Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan))

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
Foreign businesspeople may speedily clear immigration inspection to enter/exit the State at designated inspection counters if they have been recommended by the local commercial chambers of which they are members, if the Ministry of Economic Affairs has examined and approved such recommendations, if the Ministry of the Interior has entered the list ......

Recovery of fugitives' illegal assets is focus of new initiative

Edit China Daily 21 Sep 2016
In a new focus in the hunt for corrupt officials who have fled overseas, police will not only bring fugitives back to China to face justice, but will also emphasize recovering their ill-gotten assets, the Ministry of Public Security said ... A large number of corrupt officials have transferred billions of yuan in illegal funds to their foreign accounts, either through money laundering or underground banks, the ministry said....

Offender scheme 180 Degrees 'may increase crimes'

Edit BBC News 21 Sep 2016
A programme designed to cut reoffending rates actually made criminals more likely to offend, a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) study has found ... The Ministry of Justice study found 81% on the scheme reoffended within a year compared with 69% who were not on it ... The Ministry of Justice said both those on the scheme and the control group who were not were "similar offenders" and said its findings were "statistically significant"....

Now, barcodes soon on e-tickets to verify fliers

Edit The Times of India 21 Sep 2016
The move comes in after the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has claimed a rise in the incidents of fliers with bogus tickets ... They have no way to identify the genuineness of an e-ticket ... The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is a nodal agency of Civil Aviation of India and it is their work to provide the facility at airport.We are waiting for final approval," Kumar said ... More from The Times of India....
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